In the autumn forest in the middle of the night, three scouts returned from the mission, having spent more than a day in the rear of the Germans. Hearing a suspicious rustle, Sergeant Yegorov crawled to the sound and soon, along with his assistants, he found in a deserted wet trencher sleeping a heavy sleep, completely run wild boy.
Further, the story " Son of the regiment", a summary of which is given here,
talks about how the fate of Vanya Solntsev, found by our soldiers, was decided. The regiment in which they served should, guided by intelligence data, urgently advance. And where at such a moment to put the boy, no one could think of.
The fact that Captain Enakiev, the platoon commander, killed his wife and son during the bombing at the beginning of the war, did not allow him to let Vanya stay with the platoon for a long time. He could not allow the little twelve-year-old boy to participate in terrible military operations and ordered him to be sent to an orphanage.
Sitting in the tent at the "giants" who fed him, scouts Bidenko and Gorbunov, Vanya did not even believe that yesterday (as stated in the work "Son of the Regiment", a summary whom you read) he, sick and hunted like a wolf cub, made his way all alone in the cold forest. After all, in the three years that he wandered, these were the first people who should not be feared.
Therefore, having heard that he was being sent to the rear, he was startled and upset. “I'll run away anyway!” - Vanya promised. "Nothing, you will not run away from me," answered Bidenko, who was instructed to accompany the foundling. Although he didn’t really want that either. The corporal really liked the clever "shepherd," as the scouts called him.
And, to the amazement of Corporal Bidenko, Vanya jumped out of the truck on the move and got lost in the forest, and the soldier had to return with an unfulfilled mission to the unit. He, an experienced intelligence officer, could not find the boy and was very embarrassed.
As the story “Son of the Regiment” tells the rest of the story which you read, Vanya by all means decided to return to his beloved Bidenko and Gorbunov. During his search, he met a "wonderful, beautiful boy" - the son of a cavalry regiment, who suggested that the shepherd simply did not like the soldiers. But Vanya did not believe it and firmly decided to become a “son” too.
He still found captain Enakiev and convinced him that he could become an excellent assistant to scouts. The captain, struck by the boy’s resourcefulness and perseverance, introduced him to the unit.
And soon Vanya was already on a combat mission. Under the guise of a village cowgirl he
led the scouts behind the Germans, but, wanting to distinguish himself and help ours, he made a mistake by taking a compass and a chemical pencil with him in a shepherd’s bag. For how he puts signs in the old primer, and the Germans found him. Saved Vanya corporal Gorbunov. About how this happened, you can read in detail in the story "Son of the Regiment", a summary of which we offer in the article.
The author describes in detail, with rapture, how a shaggy and ragged “shepherdess” turned into a real soldier, the son of a regiment, with what care the fighters treated him.
Being interested in the fate of the boy, Captain Enakiev took him to his dugout,
deciding to adopt him and make him a real gunner. In details, all the stages of Vanina’s training in martial art cannot be summarized. “The son of the regiment” describes in detail how the boy became a disciplined fighter and sensible assistant commander.
But in one of the battles, when attacking Germany, Enakiev was killed, and the newly orphaned Vanya was sent to the Suvorov School.
About how the boy grew up and studied further, does not tell in the story "Son of the Regiment" Kataev. The summary can only suggest that this person in the future became a worthy officer.